Dr Ab­dul­rah­man A Hus­sain Jawa­h­ery

pres­i­dent, GPIC

Dr Ab­dul­rah­man A Hus­sain Jawa­h­ery, pres­i­dent, Gulf Petro­chem­i­cal In­dus­tries Com­pany (GPIC), is one of the most prom­i­nent fig­ures in the en­ergy sec­tor of Bahrain. Dr Jawa­h­ery has led GPIC, the king­dom’s most suc­cess­ful down­stream ven­ture, since 1 Jan­uary 2011, util­is­ing decades of ex­pe­ri­ence in re­fin­ing, petro­chem­i­cals and fer­tilis­ers. A world-renowned in­dus­try ex­pert, Dr Jawa­h­ery has oc­cu­pied se­nior man­age­ment roles in many or­gan­i­sa­tions. He is also a reg­u­lar speaker at key in­dus­try events, and ad­vo­cates for fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of the down­stream in­dus­try to ful­fil the re­gion’s po­ten­tial, and to cre­ate more value from its vast hy­dro­car­bon re­sources. In 2015, he re­ceived the ‘Bahrain Com­pe­tency Medal of the First Class’ from His Majesty King Ha­mad bin Isa Al Khal­ifa.